Saturday, October 17, 2015

3 comments:

rather shocking, an american hot dog in the land of the bratwurst. i know in barcelona i was warmed on countless occasions by the german style bratwurst bars, i can't think of their name offhand, which served excellent brats as well as german and belgian beer. not that i hate hotdogs, they're about my favorite food, just had sausages tonight in fact, but nobody beats the brat

hey linh,oh, buttwiper is everywhere to be seen here. my mother in law's husband always has a fridge full. german beer is upper echelon, to do obviously with a tradition of quality but also their labelling law--you simply can't sell shite there. someone, a dutch guy, pointed this out to me when i lived in barcelona. so i would buy the cheapest cans, 19 euro cents i remember (i almost tried selling them on the rambla but chickened out), wish i could remember the name, an army green can, quite good. but bud is european owned now, i think, the huge belgian conglomerate? molson-coors-whatever-whatever is i think second or third biggest is the shite beer conglomerate game. this in the age of the microbrew. now, thank god, and i mean very, very recently, england has begun at least in higher end shops to embrace the american ipa, my personal fave. hazed and infused from colorado is my favorite, also dale's pale ale from colorado. cheers

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Born in Vietnam in 1963, I came to the US in 1975, and have also lived in Italy, England and Germany. I'm the author of two books of stories, Fake House (2000) and Blood and Soap (2004), five of poems, All Around What Empties Out (2003), American Tatts (2005), Borderless Bodies (2006), Jam Alerts (2007) and Some Kind of Cheese Orgy (2009), and a novel, Love Like Hate (2010). I've been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, 2004, 2007, Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, Postmodern American Poetry: a Norton Anthology (vol. 2) and Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories From Around the World, etc. I'm also editor of Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (1996) and The Deluge: New Vietnamese Poetry (2013). Blood and Soap was chosen by Village Voice as one of the best books of 2004. My writing has been translated into Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Icelandic and Finnish, and I've been invited to read in London, Cambridge, Brighton, Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, Halle, Reykjavik, Toronto, Singapore and all over the US. I've also published widely in Vietnamese.